Search Result:jack-in-the-pulpit
KK Pronunciation
〔 `dʒækInðә`pJlpIt 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˋdʒækinðәˋpulpit 〕
Overview of noun jack-in-the-pulpit
The noun jack-in-the-pulpit has 2 senses
- jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens -- (common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries)
- cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum -- (common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum)